Kennedy to retire - USSC will swing even further right

The USSC alone should be reason to vote against Trump.

 

If I was advising Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, I would tell them to hold a press conference tomorrow and say something like the following:

Senator Shumer, you said "you will pay the price" and "won't know what hit you". Why shouldn't I take that as a direct threat to myself, my colleague, our families, and the institution of the Supreme Court? I am now forced to hire additional security because you have ratcheted up the dialogue to the point I have a legitimate concern about our safety. What exactly where you trying to achieve by making such direct threats?

 

I'm sorry but are people really accusing Schumer of making a physical threat on them??? That's a bit ridiculous. Shouldn't it be obvious that he is talking politically? I mean if they do overturn abortion there will be a big political price to be paid.

 

Does the name James Hodgkinson mean anything to you? The liberal Bernie Sanders supporter who shot Representative Steve Scalise at a softball game? What if somebody like James heard Chuck Schumer?

 

How does it compare to this "threat"?

Mr. Trump, writing on Twitter Sunday morning, attacked Mr. Schiff as “a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man,” warning, “He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!”

 

He invented lymphoma.

 

Lol the right owns violence against politicians and threats against those who disagree with. We're talking about a group of people who tie black men to the back of pickup trucks and drag them, or just run over women at rallies.

Let's not forget all the death threats against Schiff and Pelosi or anyone who testified as a witness. They received 100's of death threats - ACTUAL threats many inspired by your fearless leader Trump who loves to stokes the flames of violence.

You are calling the kettle black (or just living in an insane reality)

 

Shhh, it's ok for Trump to do that against liberals because liberals are important like conservatives are

 

I’m surprised that Schumer did that. He usually has more sense. Why verbally attack a couple of justices who are still hearing the case?

 

It was at a political rally. I doubt when he said it he thought it would amount to much

 

It reminds me of when TX Rep Cain tweeted Beto that his AR-15 was ready for him. Except the roles of who is outraged and who says it was just harmless political rhetoric are reversed.

Anyway, I get what Schumer was trying to express. Even if we take the innocent interpretation of political consequences, he still should not have directed it at individual justices. Justices are apolitical, or at least we pretend they are, and in any case they are themselves immune to political consequences. It will be the country itself that will absorb whatever consequences, not anyone on the Supreme Court. And those 2 would still need 3 other unnamed Justices to change anything. Their culpability is no higher than any other Justice's. And people get real antsy about anyone trying to bully the courts -- if you don't like Trump doing it, you really shouldn't try it yourself. Just a dumb and highly inappropriate move. I'd be screaming bloody murder if Trump had done it (oh wait, he did already).

 

when you've lost Laurence Tribe you know you made a mistake

 

Schumer would've been in the clear if he made his veiled threat involving guns.

Then it's all wink wink jokes and liberty like when Tea Partiers dabbled with militarist threats to Obama.

He would've totally flew under the right wing rage radar.

 

Well said, JV.

It’s a bit difficult for me to get into D&D or any other forum this morning after a loss like last night. The allergens floating around in Austin right now don’t help. Maybe later.

 

Lmao Schumer tucked tail and backed down like the flop he is.

 

Schumer be like:

 

So...you're saying he should not have implicitly apologized and clarified his remarks? What do you suggest that he do?

 

His apology must have been tucked away somewhere on cnn.com.